History
Origin
Thomas Rawlins founded the school in 1691.Grammar school
Rawlins became the Thomas Rawlins Grammar School, also known as Rawlins Grammar School.Comprehensive
Leicestershire changed to comprehensive schools in the 1960s and 1970s, with its Leicestershire plan, implementingAcademy
On 1 November 2011, Rawlins Community College officially gained academy status and became independent of local authority control. In September 2013 the name of the school became Rawlins Academy.Traditions
Houses
At the beginning of the 2006 autumn term, Rawlins was divided into six houses: Bradgate (Purple), Beaumanor (Red), Swithland (Blue), Outwoods (Green), Beacon (Orange), and Buddon (Yellow). In the 2009 Autumn term there were a vertical tutor groups with students from all years being placed in the same forms. Each form is assigned a house, with about 20 forms from each house. In 2017, Rawlins changed their coaching system to year tutor groups. At this point each year group had 12 forms (2 for each house). A revamped house system has launched in 2020, with the school reducing to four houses: Ignis (Red), Terra (Green), Aqua (Blue) and Spiritus (Yellow). This meant that there are now 8 tutor groups for each year (2 in each house). The house names are the Latin translations of the words Fire, Earth, Water and Air. These names were chosen by a vote taken part in by the whole school, and the choice of Latin being used was decided upon by the Year 7 group of 2020-2021.Media enterprises
Raw TV
Raw TV broadcasts programs from news to event coverage and general entertainment programming via the Rawlins VLE. The current regular programme is the Raw TV News. Other shows currently air as one-off specials and cover anything from sporting events to Rawlins film makers. Raw TV was featured onNotable former pupils
* Tom Bayliss, footballer for Preston North End; (formerly of Coventry City - League Two Play-off final winner 2017/18) * Dorothy Bennett (biologist), Professor of Cell Biology, since 1999, at the Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute atReferences
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